A Road to Black Lives Matter
A Road to Black Lives Matter
Diversity and understanding of our differences can calm the storms bringing forth an ultimate peace. Recognizing the spectrum of identities, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, spiritualities, and social experiences has set the tone for social movements and inspired hopes for a utopia of inclusivity. It has been a long, tumultuous road of sit-ins for the integration of public and private spaces, overcoming segregated buses and drug stores with marches to defy racial inequalities across bridges in Alabama and on to Washington, D.C.
As people capable of surviving the colonial consequences, African Americans are conscious of their shared ancestral memories, struggles, and imagination. In facing the present-day similar injustices with domestic terrorism, modern day lynching in police brutality, mass incarceration, and the dismantling of sociopolitical organizations, the dreams speak of an emancipated future that our ancestors already lived.
Artists Included:
Akili Ron Anderson, American, born 1946
Romare Bearden, American, 1911 – 1988
Allan L. Edmunds, American, born 1949
Valerie Maynard, American, 1937 – 2022
William Sylvester Carter, American, 1909 – 1996
Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 – 2000
Mickalene Thomas, American, born 1971
Ira Graham, American
Jessica Marie Hopkins, American, born 1983
Kai Patterson, American, born 2000